Defense and Space

The fiscal 2024 budget request shows the Air Force wants to revive the flight demonstration program five years after testing an initial version of the aircraft.

Boeing will record another charge on its star-crossed KC-46A tanker program for the U.S. Air Force.

Israel’s Aeronautics Group will see its Orbiter 4 uncrewed aircraft system being manufactured and assembled in Thailand.

The offer serves as “indirect compensation” for donating 13 Mikoyan MiG-29s and parts of an SA-6 battery to Ukraine.

The U.S Air Force launched the program with the intention of inducting all 178 T-1As in the Avionics Modification program, but later decided to retire the fleet

The service is ending the Adaptive Engine Transition Program for its fleet, opting instead for Pratt’s cheaper Engine Core Upgrade proposal.

The Biden administration’s fiscal 2024 request includes an increase in procurement and research and looks to cut the current fleet to pay for it.

Just six more satellites are needed for full global coverage.

Aircraft, spacecraft and military supplier Ducommun said March 21 it bought BLR Aerospace.

After a controlled burn lasting several minutes from its main propulsion system, ispace’s Hakuto-R Mission 1 lunar lander entered the Moon’s orbit on March 21.

North Macedonia has confirmed it has joined Poland and Slovakia in supplying Soviet-era combat aircraft to Ukraine.

The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is expected to be the first tenant in Ebbing.

U.S. space agency will lease the garments, which provide 8 hr. of life support for missions.

Startup sees SpaceX Starship enabling larger, albeit lower-cost spacecraft.

NHIndustries, the consortium building the NH90 military helicopter, has offered to resolve technical issues faced by its customer Norway for free.

The UK Space Agency has granted £2.9 million to Rolls-Royce for research into how micro nuclear reactor technology might be used to power a Moon base.

Turkish Aerospace has unveiled the next iteration of its Anka family of uncrewed aircraft systems.

The Pentagon’s newest batch of aid for Ukraine includes additional missiles for Ukrainian aircraft to target Russian surface-to-air missile systems.

The reported freeze in Pentagon funding to 2022 appropriated levels was reported in January.

U.S. Air Force officials have not backed off predictions of a first flight coming later this year, but certain conditions and a note of doubt have creeped in.

NASA’s JSC is in line to receive the largest share of the agency’s $27.2 billion fiscal 2024 budget request among NASA’s 10 field centers and Washington HQ.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries is looking at methods to lower the C-2's production costs, a key concern for potential buyers of the strategic airlifter.

KAI has revived its plans to develop a single-seat variant of the FA-50 light fighter and unveiled a road map for the KF-21 Block 3.

After bringing together seven small companies in three years, Aresia is gearing up to follow Airbus and Dassault in their planned ramp-up.

Leonardo Helicopters Managing Director Gian Piero Cutillo talks digitalization, supply chains and his vision for the company’s UK operation.